Modified gravitational wave propagation: information from strongly lensed binaries and the BNS mass function

Abstract

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has allowed us to start probing this effect, and here we briefly review two promising ways of testing it. We will show that, already with the current network of detectors, it is possible to reach an interesting accuracy in the estimation of the ${\Xi }_0$ parameter (that characterizes modified gravitational wave propagation, with ${\Xi }_{0,\mathrm{GR}}=1$) and with next generation facilities, such as the Einstein Telescope, we can get a sub-percent measurement.

4 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the 2022 Gravitation session of the 56th Rencontres de Moriond